Joanne Hunt
What fuels disability denial? Neoliberalism, epistemic injustice and the psychology of legitimacy
"[...] attitudes, beliefs and stereotypes serve to legitimize social arrangements and to provide ideological support for social and...
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Joanne Hunt
- Oct 3
- 7 min
Spotlight on ME/CFS: Who is lobbying whom? Part two
This post is the second of a two-part series looking at academic influence on the UK government’s stance on ME/CFS, during the 1990s. It...
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Joanne Hunt
- Oct 3
- 9 min
Spotlight on ME/CFS: Who is lobbying whom? Part one
I have already written a little on some of the ME/CFS-related academic-state exchanges that can be found in The National Archives, data...
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Joanne Hunt
- Aug 2
- 6 min
Paper summary: On the politics driving the neglect of ME/CFS
The following summary was very kindly published by The ME Global Chronicle (Twitter: @MECentraal) as part of the June 2022 issue. Last...
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Joanne Hunt
- Jul 26
- 9 min
Paper summary: Long Covid, disability studies, and medical education
The following is a summary of a recent article I had published in Medical Humanities published by BMJ: https://mh.bmj.com/content/early/2...
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Joanne Hunt
- Aug 8, 2021
- 18 min
Summary: Structural dimensions of the biopsychosocial model
Following feedback, I have written a summary of the series of four blogposts looking at structural (essentially, socio-political)...
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Joanne Hunt
- Jun 22, 2021
- 11 min
Socio-political dimensions of the biopsychosocial model: Need for a critically reflexive model
“To provide a basis for understanding the determinants of disease and arriving at rational treatments and patterns of health care, a...
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Joanne Hunt
- Jun 22, 2021
- 10 min
Need for critical reflexivity in medical education: The case of ‘contested’ illness and MUS
Improved medical education has frequently been cited as a potential means of improving patient-centred care and increasing patient...
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Joanne Hunt
- Jun 22, 2021
- 6 min
Epistemic injustice in healthcare: An overview
"[...] I believe that there are areas where injustice is normal, and that the only way to reveal what is involved in epistemic justice...
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Joanne Hunt
- Jun 5, 2021
- 8 min
Structural dimensions of the biopsychosocial model: Downstream effects of upstream corruption
“The privileged are simply less likely to believe claims about oppression when they come from those who actually experience it”. Nora...
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Joanne Hunt
- Jun 5, 2021
- 10 min
Structural dimensions of the biopsychosocial model: Academic-state-corporate nexus*
“O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!” Sir Walter Scott. 'Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field'...
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Joanne Hunt
- Jun 5, 2021
- 8 min
Structural dimensions of the biopsychosocial model: Constructs and propaganda
“People go to war for ideas, not for evidence.” Gordon Waddell in: White, P. (ed) (2005). 'Biopsychosocial medicine: An integrated...
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Joanne Hunt
- Jun 5, 2021
- 6 min
Structural dimensions of the biopsychosocial model: Beginnings
"Wherever power is at work, we should be ready to ask who or what is controlling whom, and why". Miranda Fricker (2007). ‘Epistemic...
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Joanne Hunt
- Jun 4, 2021
- 42 min
Structural dimensions of the biopsychosocial model (full series of blogposts)
This extended blogpost simply brings all of the posts in the 'Structural dimensions' series together, additionally referenced in academic...
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Joanne Hunt
- Feb 18, 2021
- 8 min
NHS Digital refuse to place clear caveats on inaccurate ME/CFS webpages
Back in December, I (again) emailed NHS Digital to ask them to remove inaccurate and potentially harmful information from their ME/CFS...
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Joanne Hunt
- Jan 15, 2021
- 9 min
Intersectionality: Why epistemic injustice and stigma are not ‘equal opportunities’ phenomena
Intersectionality is a concept that arose out of what I would consider critical social sciences (notably, the work of Black feminist...
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Joanne Hunt
- Jan 3, 2021
- 8 min
Toward a critical psychology of ‘medically unexplained symptoms’?
Following a short overview blogpost on critical psychology, in this post I take a few examples from the case of myalgic encephalomyelitis...
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Joanne Hunt
- Dec 21, 2020
- 18 min
Reflections on NICE draft for diagnosis and management of ME/CFS
On 10 November, NICE released its long-awaited draft of the guidelines on diagnosis and management of myalgic encephalomyelitis...
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Joanne Hunt
- Dec 20, 2020
- 4 min
Critical psychology: An overview
Since most of my writing is underpinned by critical psychology thinking (intersected with a disability studies lens), I thought I would...
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Joanne Hunt
- Nov 6, 2020
- 4 min
Factor #8: Ableist politics, money and abuse of power
Let’s go back to where we started (factor#1), with the biopsychosocial model. This model rather ironically arose as a means of making...
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